According to the German Works Constitution Act, establishments above certain thresholds defined by the number of employees must release members of their works councils from work and enable them to do a full-time job as works councilors. Using a full sample of all establishments affected, we...

Die Studie vergleicht Tierbestände, Betriebe mit Tierhaltung und durchschnittliche Bestandsgrößen in der Rinder-, Schweine- und Geflügelhaltung in Niedersachsen, Deutschland, der Europäischen Union sowie wichtigen Drittländern wie den USA, Kanada, Brasilien und Thailand.

"This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows....